Eplexity AWS Accelerators

Many enterprises have already seen the benefits of speed, agility and flexibility of cloud computing models and Amazon AWS through initial migration pilots or use cases. As they seek to extend usage of AWS more broadly across their organizations, CIOs and IT decision-makers face a series of new, important questions:

What are the highest impact production workloads we should migrate to AWS?

How can we integrate AWS into our service catalog and ITIL / ITSM processes?

How can we use AWS to build a foundation for an IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) operating model?

Answering these questions is critical for enterprises seeking to leverage the benefits of AWS across their organizations, and provide users the services and capabilities they need to drive innovation and growth through Migration planning.

The Eplexity Amazon AWS Accelerator rapidly provides clients a foundation for delivering ITaaS models while answering critical issues around delivery and support of AWS services.

Benefits: As a result of the Eplexity AWS Accelerator program, clients will realize the following benefits:

Deployment of an initial production workload or application on AWS

Prioritized roadmap for migration of additional workloads to AWS and expected ROI impact

New competencies and capabilities for ITaaS service management and delivery

An operational foundation for delivering ITaaS that can be extended to additional IT services

Description & Objective: The design phase is the key starting point for all of the project components. During this phase, the Eplexity team will gather information about Client’s AWS requirements to gain an in-depth understanding of operations, networking and data management.

So what does a Project Based Work Plan look like?

Approach: Eplexity will provide a Senior Engineer and Project Manager to perform the following professional services for Client.

Subtask 1 – Eplexity will assign a Project Manager to coordinate the tasks and schedules associated with this project.

Subtask 2 – Eplexity will conduct an initial kick-off meeting with Client to review the plan of work, identify project participants and their roles, and establish initial project timelines.

Subtask 3 -Eplexity will provide requirements for accessing the Client AWS environment as needed to capture information needed to develop the design plan.

Subtask 4 -Verify the virtual infrastructure and components

Subtask 5 -Eplexity will perform a design workshops with the Client to assess networking, security and virtual hardware requirements. Including, but not limited to:

Hybrid-cloud design patterns including tools, and methodologies.

Selecting the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database, or security requirements

Identifying appropriate use of AWS architectural best practices

Estimating AWS costs and identifying cost control mechanisms

Review and develop use cases relevant to the business with a deep-dive into one use-case.

AWS external connectivity design for scale and according to industry best practices.

Determine migration strategy for data to AWS.

Deliverables: Design Documentation and implementation documentation related to the AWS deployment; including:Eplexity will produce a Pre-Deployment Engineering Report (PDER) detailing the results of the AWS design. Modification project timing or cost estimates, resulting from the design, as applicable.

Approach: This is a set of design and build tasks based on the design workshops performed in the previous tasks. It will include but not be limited to building AWS instances, defining AWS security groups, writing auto scale templates, and related network infrastructure components to operationalize an AWS environment.

Subtask 1 -Establish network connectivity from up to one (1) location into an AWS Region. This can be completed by VPN, Internet via Jump host, or a customer acquired Direct Connect solution.

Subtask 3 -Migrate up to one (1) server application into AWS. Alternatively Eplexity may build a 3-tier web architecture on-top of AWS Infrastructure should a migration of an application not be feasible.

Subtask 5 -Configure auto scaling script based on CPU, or application availability health checks. Perform testing to ensure application is made available in multiple Availability Zones.

Subtask 6 -Perform on-site training of the implemented solution above. This includes one 4 hour session performed by the Eplexity Consulting Engineer.

Deliverables: As-built documentation of the implementation solution will be provided as well as test runs confirming operational functionality.

Long Term AWS Planning and Maintenance: Eplexity can maintain your AWS Workloads while taking care of them with our AWS Managed Service Program. The Eplexity AWS MSP program allows for us to monitor, upgrade and maintain your core AWS Workloads though a Eplexity Service Level Agreement – SLA. The SLA is based on your needs as an organization. We can help with WorkLoad planning, engineering and AWS Skills development to help with your journey to the Public and Private Cloud.

Step 1 of 10

Do you have dedicated staff to support your AWS Cloud Initiatives?

What is the most senior level person you have on staff or are you looking to hire to support your AWS projects and on-going management? (Select One)

Senior AWS person*

DevOps Engineer with 2 or less years of experience

DevOps Engineer with 3 – 5 years of experience

DevOps Engineer with 6 + years of experience

Application Architect with 10+ years of experience

Existing Application Development Team (Shadow IT)

Do you have staff to manage your AWS environment around the clock, 24/7?

24/7*

Yes

No

Do you have a formal DevOps training process?

DevOps Training process*

Yes

No

Are you planning on following AWS best practices, such as the Cloud-Adoption-Framework as part of your migration strategy?

AWS Best Practices*

Yes

No

Do you have a formal DevOps training process?

Do you have a process for continuous improvement?

Development team’s performance*

Yes

No

Do you have a dedicated Project Manager/Scrum Master for your Cloud/DevOps projects?

Dedicated Project Manager*

Yes

No

How much time do you budget for hiring and training support or engineering employees? (select one)

Budget*

3

months

6

months

9+

months

How many servers are you looking to migrate to AWS? (select one)

Servers*

5-10 Servers

11-20 Servers

21-30 Servers

30+Servers

Result

Congratulations!

Based on your answers, you’re in great shape to start your AWS journey. We’re happy to supplement your efforts. Our team of expert resources can help you with migration questions, modernization needs, and 24/7 management of your applications once you’re running in AWS.

Based on your answers, you’ve got a good foundation in place to start your AWS journey. The good news is, we can help! And you can save time and money by focusing your team on business issues while we handle the cloud work faster and cheaper than in-house resources.

Based on your answers, you’re on the right track, and we can help you start your AWS journey. You may feel like you have a lot of work to do, but we can help with migration planning and deployment. With EPLEXITY you can get up and running on AWS faster, easier, and more affordably then you may have realized.

Accelerated migration to the AWS cloud

Many Customers need to ensure that their cloud environments are compliant with regulations (such as HIPAA, GDPR, ISO, or PCI) before they could start migrating applications and infrastructure. CXOS Managed AWS ensures compliance with the proper regulations as part of automated CXOS AWS landing zone deployment and on-going compliance management.

Additionally, The CXOS Design Library of production grade AWS Architectures are 100% automated leading to a reduction of time and cost by 80% associated with migrations. This saves our customers between $600-$1,200 per server migrated in Professional Services one-time fees.

Resource cost avoidance

Eliminating the need to hire new cloud resources yields on average $625,000 annually in cost savings. Running the project in-house is the alternative to CXOS-led cloud migration and management. For our customers, this would have required hiring the equivalent of a 4 - 10 FTEs (4 for 8X5 service and support\migration coverage vs minimum of 10 for 24/7) who possess cloud expertise and then keeping them on staff to run cloud operations postmigration. Leveraging CXOS to prepare for the migration and to take over operations saves our customers hundreds of hours of expensive resource time.

Optimized Resource Efficiency Gains

CXOS Managed AWS brings operational excellence, experience, expertise, and best practices, aligned with AWS Well-architected Standards that allowed our customers to achieve higher resource efficiency gains, focusing resources on higher business impacting activities than what it would have achieved on its own.

Improved organizational security

The average cost of an SMB data breach is now $117,000 per incident, according to a study of data breach costs at small to medium sized businesses performed by Kaspersky Labs. Working with CXOS Managed AWS Services often-times provides a major overall security benefit to our customers and reduces the chance of a major security breach, which can cause damage in the form of brand reputation, stock price, and cost of remediation efforts.

Gartner expects that through 2022, at least 95% of cloud security failures will be due to the customer’s improper configurations. CXOS Managed AWS adheres to rigorous security engineering standards, aligned to AWS Well Architected Security Pillar and performs monitoring and remediating of security incidents 24/7/365.

Cloud infrastructure management tooling

Creating or buying your own infrastructure management tools such as patch, update, support ticketing, security, or backup solutions leads to increased infrastructure costs. CXOS provided all necessary management tools. Our customers on average save an additional $73,000 annually on cloud infrastructure management tooling. Working with CXOS Managed AWS Services enables customers to avoid fees they would have paid if they led cloud operations on their own.

Reduced downtime

ITIC’s latest 2019 Server Reliability Survey, which polled over 1,000 businesses worldwide from November 2018 through January 2019, found that a single hour of downtime now costs 98% of firms at least $100,000. With CXOS Managed AWS Services running cloud operations, customers see higher uptime for their AWS Workloads due to improved patching compliance, a reduction in the number of major security incidents, and faster incident response. Higher uptime can also result in incremental revenue that the customers would not have recognized if they ran cloud operations on their own.